Overview As Staff Backend Engineer in LeoVegas Sports, you lead the design and evolution of distributed systems that power real-time sports data, trading and pricing for millions of customers. You’ll provide technical leadership while staying hands-on to raise engineering standards and balance long-term platform health with business needs. You collaborate across teams to simplify complexity, improve reliability, and drive scalable, event-driven architectures that live at the heart of a high-performance sportsbook platform. This role blends architecture guidance with practical delivery and mentorship, shaping our future in a fast-paced, data-intensive domain.

Compensaciones / BeneficiosHybrid work policy (2 days from home)Workation (4 weeks)300 EUR wellness contribution annuallyHealth insurance (Alan)Life insuranceEmployee Assistance Program ResponsabilidadesLead architecture and design discussions for scalable, resilient distributed systems and validate options via spikes and PoCsDrive simplification of complex systems while maintaining performance and code qualityIdentify and mitigate scalability, resiliency, and operational risks before productionImprove observability, monitoring and readiness; reduce technical debtPromote event-driven architectures, performance optimisation, testing, automation, and CI/CDMentor engineers through reviews,



pairing, and technical guidanceCollaborate with Product, Engineering Managers and Architects to translate problems into practical solutionsContribute to a culture of ownership, collaboration and continuous improvement Requisitos principalesProven experience designing, building and operating distributed systems at scale in productionStrong backend Java experience (preferably Java 21+), JVM internals, concurrency and multithreadingHands-on with Reactive Programming and non-blocking systems using Spring Boot and/or Vert.xExperience with Apache Kafka and event-driven architectures; familiarity with Redis or NATSExperience with Redis caching and with SQL/NoSQL databases (PostgreSQL, MariaDB, MongoDB)Experience with observability and monitoring platforms (Datadog, Grafana, Kibana) and debugging production incidentsStrong system design and architectural decision-making; balancing latency, throughput, consistency and maintainabilityAbility to influence technical decisions and communicate with engineers, product managers and stakeholdersCollaborative mindsetOwnership and proactive leadershipClear communication with technical and non-technical stakeholdersJava 21+Spring Boot and/or Vert.xReactive programming and non-blocking systems

📌 Staff Backend Engineer - Sports - LeoVegas (Málaga)
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📍 Málaga